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@Jesse For this kind of work I'd suggest something like restructure101. They
are a good crew and have given apache hbase a license; I could ask them for one
for you. Using restructure101, you can see our tangled mess in a pretty
diagram.... Then you can try out various refactorings w/o actually changing
code to see how viable a refactor. If you want to check it out, come by and
we'll sit around a screen for an hour.
On your suggestions:
{code}
I'm proposing to follow two general ideas to resolve this:
1) Abstracting out the static methods into a Util class of the same name (so it
would be something like HLogUtils for static method in HLog).
{code}
... and then the Util class would be hoisted up into the packages above so it
could be used from multiple packages? Master and Regionserver packages need to
know about hlog? Should we refactor hlog to its own package? Is that any
better? Lots of tools rate complexity by how much interpackage dependency we
have going on (I suppose we could have an hlog module in an org.hbase.wal
package that the regionserver and master modules depend on but yeah, we'd have
a million modules then).
{code}
2) Moving super general constants to HConstants (like HFile.DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE,
which is scattered liberally throughout) and then more specific constants to
subclasses within HConstants, meaning you might get something like
HConstants.HLog.SPLIT_SKIP_ERRORS_DEFAULT.
{code}
I'm not a fan of building up HConstants to be this fat Interface refereneced by
all and sundry. I'd think that an HFile.DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE belongs in HFile.
Whats odd is that there are refernces to this constant outside of hfile. Why
they reference it?
{code}
My other idea for (2) was to have a constants package that just has the
constants for each class. This second means smaller files, but less
easy/immediate/natural access to the constants, but gives you nice separation
between the constants.
{code}
An org.apache.hadoop.hbase.constants?
> Convert source tree into maven modules
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>
> Key: HBASE-4336
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4336
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: build
> Reporter: Gary Helmling
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 0.94.0
>
>
> When we originally converted the build to maven we had a single "core" module
> defined, but later reverted this to a module-less build for the sake of
> simplicity.
> It now looks like it's time to re-address this, as we have an actual need for
> modules to:
> * provide a trimmed down "client" library that applications can make use of
> * more cleanly support building against different versions of Hadoop, in
> place of some of the reflection machinations currently required
> * incorporate the secure RPC engine that depends on some secure Hadoop classes
> I propose we start simply by refactoring into two initial modules:
> * core - common classes and utilities, and client-side code and interfaces
> * server - master and region server implementations and supporting code
> This would also lay the groundwork for incorporating the HBase security
> features that have been developed. Once the module structure is in place,
> security-related features could then be incorporated into a third module --
> "security" -- after normal review and approval. The security module could
> then depend on secure Hadoop, without modifying the dependencies of the rest
> of the HBase code.
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